Fujiwara Motofusa

Fujiwara Motofusa (1140-1 February 1230) was the daimyo of the Kubota Fujiwara branch of the Fujiwara and was an imperial regent for emperors Rokujo and Takakura. He was enemies with the Taira since an incident in 1170 with Taira Kiyomori's grandson, the Minamoto since a few proxy wars in the later 1170s, and with his own relative Fujiwara Hidehira since 1177.

Biography
Motofusa was born in Matsudono, near the city of Kyoto, to the wealthy Fujiwara clan's Kubota Fujiwara branch. He served as Sessho (1166-1172) and Kampaku (1172-1179) for two emperors of Japan, but could not become the daimyo of the Fujiwara due to an 1170 incident in which his troops smashed the carriage of Taira Kiyomori's grandson when he refused to make way for the Emperor. By doing this, he made enemies with the powerful and rival Taira clan, and in the mid-1170s he also made hostilities with the Minamoto. The Fujiwara were further weakened when the Kubota and Hiraizumi Fujiwara split their alliance and fought, and he waged war on his relative Fujiwara Hidehira.